Paul has a post up with a really great political cartoon. I just printed it and stuck it on my refrigerator. You should, too.
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A wonderful cartoon -- but it begs the question.
When is it waffling and when is it compromise ?
For example -
When using goverment money to renovate the older housing stock in the Bronx these days, there ia a requirement to set aside a certain number of apartments (lets say 40%) for those at low income. A combination of subsides, and tax credits along with the market value rents in the remaining 60% of the apartments, allows the owner a modest profit and
means that those already living in the building will not be forced out.
On the other hand, this same solution also means that 60% of what were affordable, but run-down apartments are now out of reach for the majority of people in this county (The poorest on the East Coast.
Most people would say that was a compromise - but is it in a community where over 45% of the families are paying over 60% of their income towards housing?
Throw out the antiquated left-right spectrum of politics. Then the problem of what do do about "centrists" will disappear, and we will all be entitled to our true opinions, not some artificial notch on somebody's contrived measuring stick.